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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH KERR, on. NEW YORK, N. r, .ASSIGNOR or ONEHALF TO ANDREW I GRAFF, or SAME PLACE.

LEATHER BELTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 293,178, dated Felcruaiy 5, 184=.

lb all ,whom it may concern.-

Be 1t known that I, HUGH KERR, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York l to the letters and figures of reference marked.

thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved and novel construction of machine-belting, which combines simplicity and cheapness with great strength, durability, and smoothness of running; and my improvements 2o consist, essentially, in the details of construe tion and general arrangement of parts, all as ,will be hereinafter more fully described, andspecifically designated in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 rep- 2 5 resents a top plan view of my improved belting; Fig. 2, a bottom plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 a vertical longitudinal section thereof. Similar letters of reference occurring on the several figures indicate like parts.

In carrying out my invention the leather belting is preferably made of two thicknesses 'or layers, A B, each of which is composed of a number of small pieces or sections, (1,1as

fully shown in Fig. 3.

In forming the complete belting the ends of the section 0 of each layer are placed together butt to butt, the sections composing the upper layer, A, breaking joints with the sectionsof 0 the lower layer, B, as fully shown in the drawings, and the inner surfaces of the upper and lower sections thus arranged being connected together by a suitable cement. Now, in order to secure the said sections together and to pro- Application filed November 21, 1883. (No model.)

vide a belt'which will not stretch, I take a single strand of wire-which is especially adapted for the purpose by means of a process which forms the subject of a separate application for: patentand make a running stitch along both edges of the sections, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5o 2. ,The abutting ends of the sections of one layer and that portion of the sections of the opposite layer upon which the joints rest are then pierced entirely through with an awl or other sharp-pointed instrument and a strand of wire reeved'through the same in such man-' ner as to provide a straight double stitch, D, upon the inner or one side of the belt, as shown in Fig. 2, and a cross-stitch, E,'upon the outer or opposite side of the belt, as shown in Fig. 6c. 1. The two connecting ends of the belt thus constructed may also be secured together in the same manner.

By means of my invention I am enabled to provide belting which possesses great strength 6 5 and durability, and which will not break, stretch, or slip at either a high or low rate of speed. I am also enabled by the improved construction of the same toutilize small pieces of leather in forming the sections, thereby greatly reducing the cost.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and usefulis The herein-described leather belting, consisting of the sections 0, arranged together in layers A B, with the joints of one layer breaking joints with the opposite layer, and the whole being connected together by'means'of thelongitudinal metallic stitching at the edges of the belt and transverse stitches at the adjacent ends of theabutting sections, all substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' HUGH KERR.

IVitnesses:

ANDREW GRAFF, THos. KILVERT. 

